dead-in-iraq
Joseph DeLappe
Live performance followed by a discussion with DeLappe and Mark Tribe.
Thursday, March 20
7PM
Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC
Cost: Free
http://www.eyebeam.org

On Thursday, March 20-the date of the US invasion of Iraq-from 7 - 9PM, Joseph DeLappe, recipient of Eyebeam's 2008 Commission for Resident Artists, will enact his ongoing protest and memorial work set within the Department of Defense's online military recruiting and marketing video game, America's Army. Using the login name "dead-in-Iraq", DeLappe enters the multiplayer game as a player and, forgoing fighting, uses the game's features to memorialize US military members killed in Iraq.